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Christmas Island Journal: A Remote Island Seeks a Boom Without a Bust
Jakarta :: Indonesia | about 16 hours ago
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That’s short for the Immigration Detention Center, a $370 million facility the Australian government opened less than a year ago to house the increasing number of asylum-seekers coming by boat to Australia. Tucked away in the jungle, at the other end...
Tags: christmas islanders, Australian, Indonesian, Indonesia, Jakarta, Christmas Island, Immigration detention, Suharto, Hospitality Recreation, Casino, Chinese Indonesian, Immigration to Australia
Scots girl's trauma at being herded on to deportation jet
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Scots girl's trauma at being herded on to deportation jet Published Date: 25 November 2009 THE mother of a Glasgow schoolgirl saved from deportation has said her daughter wept as they were driven to the airport to be sent back to Malawi. Florence Mhango,...
Tags: United Kingdom, Glasgow, Cranhill, Immigration to the United Kingdom, Dungavel, UNITY, Malawi, Phil Woolas, Immigration detention, Human Interest, McLaughlin, Deportation, David Meece, Jim Zwerg
Report exposes people smuggling methods
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 4 days ago
Credibility Journalist Step Vaessen interviews two men in the report, Asylum seekers Riot in Australia, who say they are part of a smuggling syndicate involving people from Afghanistan and Indonesia. Their faces disguised with hats and scarves, the men detail their...
Tags: Australia, asylum seekers, Indonesian, Step Vaessen, Indonesia, Jakarta, Immigration law, International law, Refugee, Immigration to Australia, Criminal law, Immigration detention
M'sia views Sri Lanka conflict as internal problem
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 5 days ago
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Tags: sri lankan, Australian, asylum seekers, tree branches, broom handles, pool cues, detention centre, Chris Evans, immigration minister, afghans asylum, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Immigration to Australia, HMAS Bathurst, Siev 36, Howard Government, Pacific Solution, Mandatory detention in Australia, Immigration detention, Refugee, Social Issues, Minorities, Sri Lankan Tamil people, Tamil diaspora, War Conflict, Meneng Stadium, Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, Nauru detention centre, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Serco Group, Temporary protection visa
Christmas Is buckling under population boom
Sydney :: Australia | 6 days ago
Credibility Last month the Federal Government announced the facility would be expanded to up to 2,200 to cope with a series of boat arrivals...Council president Gordon Thompson says the population has doubled because of the increase in asylum seekers, officials and...
Tags: detention centre, Australia, Sydney, Immigration law, International law, Christmas Island, Politics, Immigration to Australia, Criminal law, Immigration detention, Social Issues
Share asylum burden, Indonesians plead
Canberra :: Australia | 7 days ago
Credibility Rudd Government as the country's foreign affairs minister called on Australia to ''share the burden'' of immigrants streaming through the archipelago. Its call came as a customs vessel intercepted 53 asylum seekers off north-western Australia yesterday.
Tags: Australian, asylum seekers, Australia, Canberra, Refugee, Amnesty International, Kevin Rudd, Boat people, Immigration, Immigration to Australia, Temporary protection visa, Immigration detention, Social Issues, Politics, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia, Chris Evans, Siev 36, Forced migration, Marty Natalegawa
UK lawyers fight to save nine-year-old boy from deportation to Iran
Tehrān :: Iran | 7 days ago
Credibility The Iranian boy, known for legal reasons as Child M, has been locked up in Yarl's Wood in Bedfordshire, the UK's main immigration removal centre for women and families, since he was arrested with his mother and older brother in Manchester this week. They...
Tags: Yarl, Iran Mother, Islamic Republic of Iran, satanic verses, old boy, Iran, Tehrān, Immigration detention, Salman Rushdie, Bedfordshire, Immigration to the United Kingdom, Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
Economic slump no excuse to erode rights: Amnesty
Canberra :: Australia | 8 days ago
Credibility The global economic crisis must not be used as an excuse to unwind human rights for the millions of people now thrown back into poverty, Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan said Thursday. Poverty was linked closely to human rights abuses,...
Tags: Irene Khan, human rights, Australia, Canberra, Immigration detention, Refugee, UNITY, Forced migration, Amnesty International, Social Issues
Groups to rally at Ga. immigrant detention center
Macon :: GA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 Groups to rally at Ga. A coalition of immigrant rights groups plans to hold a vigil, rally and "funeral procession" to draw attention to what it says are violations at a south Georgia immigration detention center.
Tags: immigration detention, Macon, Immigration law, International law, Detention, Immigration to Australia, Punishments, Criminal law, Human Interest, Social Issues
Concrete action needed on custodial deaths of migrants
Petaling Jaya :: Malaysia | 9 days ago
Credibility The authorities should conduct a thorough investigation to identify the underlying causes behind the large number of deaths of migrants while under custody, said the Bar Council...Ramachelvam said brushing off the deaths as being due to illnesses such...
Tags: Datuk M. Ramachelvam, detention centres, Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, International law, Inquest, Criminal law, Immigration detention, Immigration law, Social Issues
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